Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus.bsky.social
anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Land back. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
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Dr. Karen Carr
@quatrus.bsky.social
· Nov 15
My most recent book that has actually been published is Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion 2022). (available here: a.co/d/7rCKdSL)
Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.
Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.
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From @chicago.suntimes.com on the now-public body-cam footage that was relied upon by Judge Sara Ellis.
H/t to @sophiesherry.bsky.social, Kade Heather, @vimiller.bsky.social @angelamassino.bsky.social and Kaitlin Washburn for taking on a holiday evidence drop: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
H/t to @sophiesherry.bsky.social, Kade Heather, @vimiller.bsky.social @angelamassino.bsky.social and Kaitlin Washburn for taking on a holiday evidence drop: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
Bodycam video shows feds’ aggressive tactics in vivid detail: ‘Deploy f---ing gas’
The videos, released weeks after U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis’ historic order limiting agents' use of force, offer a firsthand look at flashpoint incidents from suburban Broadview, and Chicago's Lit...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
From @chicago.suntimes.com on the now-public body-cam footage that was relied upon by Judge Sara Ellis.
H/t to @sophiesherry.bsky.social, Kade Heather, @vimiller.bsky.social @angelamassino.bsky.social and Kaitlin Washburn for taking on a holiday evidence drop: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
H/t to @sophiesherry.bsky.social, Kade Heather, @vimiller.bsky.social @angelamassino.bsky.social and Kaitlin Washburn for taking on a holiday evidence drop: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
things aren't as new as all that
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
things aren't as new as all that
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
Sad news today about Tom Stoppard, but hard to imagine a life better lived.
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Sad news today about Tom Stoppard, but hard to imagine a life better lived.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
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'Created by artist Rafael El Baz, 11 Million Dots measures 2,700 square metres (29,000 sq ft and spans the six storey façade of a new data centre near Park Royal, Ealing.'
"This takes the unheard stories of people and turns them into something sustainable." (Rafael El Baz). Discuss.
"This takes the unheard stories of people and turns them into something sustainable." (Rafael El Baz). Discuss.
11 Million Dots: London's largest participatory public artwork unveiled
A new six-storey artwork in Park Royal turns community sounds and stories into striking patterns.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
'Created by artist Rafael El Baz, 11 Million Dots measures 2,700 square metres (29,000 sq ft and spans the six storey façade of a new data centre near Park Royal, Ealing.'
"This takes the unheard stories of people and turns them into something sustainable." (Rafael El Baz). Discuss.
"This takes the unheard stories of people and turns them into something sustainable." (Rafael El Baz). Discuss.
"He gets hormonal"? We just randomly wanted to slot in a little misogyny there? It's not women who are doing all this bullshit?
"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"He gets hormonal"? We just randomly wanted to slot in a little misogyny there? It's not women who are doing all this bullshit?
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Remembering McCaffery’s thread plot device of her Pern novels…
Dormant moss spores endured months of vacuum, radiation and temperature swings outside the International Space Station … and lived.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/moss-spores-survive-nine-months-space
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/moss-spores-survive-nine-months-space
Moss spores survived in space for 9 months
The moss species Physcomitrium patens is the latest organism to survive an extended stay in the vacuum and radiation of space.
www.sciencenews.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Remembering McCaffery’s thread plot device of her Pern novels…
Surprise, the Saturday puzzle that seemed impossible at bedtime last night (well, maybe a little past bedtime) was much easier this morning.
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Surprise, the Saturday puzzle that seemed impossible at bedtime last night (well, maybe a little past bedtime) was much easier this morning.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
The whole "you shouldn't be required to get vaccines because you might think they're not safe" thing is so weird to me. We know they're safe. If you harbor a deep fear that wearing a seatbelt is somehow dangerous, you still legally have to wear one when driving.
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The whole "you shouldn't be required to get vaccines because you might think they're not safe" thing is so weird to me. We know they're safe. If you harbor a deep fear that wearing a seatbelt is somehow dangerous, you still legally have to wear one when driving.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
#OtD 28 Nov 1971 Jewish anti-fascists of the 62 Group shut down a fascist meeting at the Royal Pavillion Hotel in Brighton, UK. Present were National Front members and former Nazi SS officers, some of whom were hospitalised. More on Jewish anti-fascism: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
#OtD 28 Nov 1971 Jewish anti-fascists of the 62 Group shut down a fascist meeting at the Royal Pavillion Hotel in Brighton, UK. Present were National Front members and former Nazi SS officers, some of whom were hospitalised. More on Jewish anti-fascism: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
i mean! i'm sittin here on the group W bench!
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
i mean! i'm sittin here on the group W bench!
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
The federal government has released about $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.
Long-awaited $3.6B in heating assistance released to states and tribes
The federal government has released about $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The federal government has released about $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.
Among other crimes, this explicitly repudiates the written agreement NW made two years ago with protesters to provide space for Muslim students to meet and work towards building a Muslim special program house.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Among other crimes, this explicitly repudiates the written agreement NW made two years ago with protesters to provide space for Muslim students to meet and work towards building a Muslim special program house.
Buy-Nothing Day, people, it's just one day! your house is already jam-packed with food! you don't need any exceptions! Just don't buy anything.
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Buy-Nothing Day, people, it's just one day! your house is already jam-packed with food! you don't need any exceptions! Just don't buy anything.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
Perfection
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Perfection
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
⭕Quand la police nationale exhibe fièrement une banderole féministe à l’envers
C’est une pratique très connue des milieux hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné.
C’est une pratique très connue des milieux hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné.
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
⭕Quand la police nationale exhibe fièrement une banderole féministe à l’envers
C’est une pratique très connue des milieux hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné.
C’est une pratique très connue des milieux hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné.
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC
www.niwrc.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it
Learn more here:
www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
And here:
notournativedaughters.org
My mom and I had been trying to figure out the recipe for my grandma's noodle kugel, and turns out it's on the side of the Manischewitz medium-thickness noodle package (and requires specifically those noodles).
It took me many decades to get over the snobbery of not using back-of-the-box recipes, but y'all, they're printed there for a reason. I used Karo's pecan pie recipe this year and it was, by far, the best I've ever made.
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
My mom and I had been trying to figure out the recipe for my grandma's noodle kugel, and turns out it's on the side of the Manischewitz medium-thickness noodle package (and requires specifically those noodles).
Reposted by Dr. Karen Carr
“What’s your relationship with cycling?”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
The French artist who turned himself into a bicycle
Jeremy Barzic's striking rideable sculpture of himself highlights the humanity of cyclists.
escapecollective.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“What’s your relationship with cycling?”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”
“It’s … I don’t walk anymore. I’m like a human with wheels.”